Tagging Your Code with a Useful Assurance Label

Explore a novel approach to focusing and organizing software vulnerability assessment and assurance efforts across the entire project lifecycle. Learn how to target the most impactful weaknesses when they are most visible, implementing a consistent method across your enterprise. Discover techniques for identifying specific security weaknesses (CWEs) at different stages of software development, matching assessment activities to each phase for maximum effectiveness. Gain insights into creating an "Assurance Tag for Binaries," essentially a security "food label" for code projects. Examine potential formats for this tag, discuss the information it could capture, explore methods for obtaining the data, and consider who could create and utilize these tags for both human and machine consumption. This 31-minute talk by Robert Martin, Senior Principal Engineer at MITRE Corporation, offers valuable strategies for enhancing software security and streamlining vulnerability management processes.